On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Paul Smith <p...@mad-scientist.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 08:40 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: >> We already have apt-get, dpkg and gdebi. And between the 3 of those, >> all bases are already covered. > > That's actually not so, I don't believe. The only one of these three > that is in any way competitive with aptitude is apt-get. > > And, aptitude has an advantage over vanilla apt-get in that it > "remembers" the difference between packages you have installed directly, > and those which were installed by the system in order to satisfy > dependencies. If you later remove the packages that were installed > directly, then aptitude can also remove the other packages that were > installed to satisfy prerequisites (as long as nothing else is using > them, of course). > <snip> > Anyway, an unpacked aptitude package is less than 5M (aptitude itself is > just 2.2M).
That's actually not so, I don't believe. Both apt-get and aptitude does marking of auto-installed. It's just that you need to run apt-get autoremove separately. Aptitude + tasksel (dependency) is, in context, very big. I do agree that aptitude is much superior, though not in those ways. - arand -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
